Datacenter designation
Northern Isles (SSDC-002).
Project Natick
A research project to determine the feasibility of subsea datacenters powered by offshore renewable energy.
Facts and figures
Pressure vessel dimensions
12.2 m long and 2.8 m in diameter; about the size of a 40-foot ISO shipping container.
Subsea docking structure dimensions
14.3 m long and 12.7 m wide.
Electrical power source
100% locally produced renewable electricity from on-shore wind and solar, and off-shore tide and wave.
Electrical power consumption
240 kW.
Payload
12 racks containing 864 standard Microsoft datacenter servers with FPGA acceleration and 27.6 petabytes of disk.
Location
European Marine Energy Centre, Scotland, UK.
Internal operating environment
One atmosphere of dry nitrogen.
Time to deploy
Less than 90 days from factory to operation.
Planned maintenance-free operation
Up to five years.